[NOTE. Morse, My Deaf Friend is the first English-language book to be published in America by the celebrated Croatian poet Miloš Djurdjevic. In this book he presents two prose poem cycles from Umbrian Sunstroke and Other Poems, published in Croatia in 2010, & a selection of new poems, some of which will appear in the forthcoming Uninvited Guests and Debts.

Born in 1961 on the isle of Rab, Croatia, Djurdjević is the author of four books of poetry, two books of essays & literary criticism, & the editor of an anthology of contemporary Croatian poetry. His poetry, criticism, and essays are translated & widely published in literary magazines; he has attended literary festivals & seminars in Croatia & abroad. He has translated some thirty books from English (poetry, fiction, literary theory, & philosophy). Djurdjevic is the Croatian domain editor for the online literary magazine Poetry International based in Rotterdam. In 2009, he was writer in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He lives & works as a freelance writer & editor in Zagreb.]

ABOUT POEMS AND POETICS: In this age of internet and blog the possibility opens of a free circulation of works (poems and poetics in the present instance) outside of any commercial or academic nexus. I will therefore be posting work of my own, both new & old, that may otherwise be difficult or impossible to access, and I will also, from time to time, post work by others who have been close to me, in the manner of a freewheeling on-line anthology or magazine. I take this to be in the tradition of autonomous publication by poets, going back to Blake and Whitman and Dickinson, among numerous others.

Technicians of the Sacred, August 2017Expanded Fiftieth Anniversary EditionUniversity of California Press

* The index below is organized chronoloigally, starting with a post from May 20, 2012, when Poems and Poetics first appeared in Jacket2. Earlier posts in the series, going back to 2008, may be found at Poems and Poetics.